PBS documentary questions tech and our future
Frontline’s “Digital Nation,” which airs on Tuesday, raises some troubling questions about technology addiction, yet provides some optimism about the positive implications of a tech-immersed world.
First Mass-produced Camera Heading For Auction
Are you a huge camera collector? Well, if you are, you’ve probably heard of the Giroux Daguerreotype camera, the world’s first commercially produced camera. This is probably your best chance to get it, as the camera, produced in 1839, wi…
The World’s Oldest Swiss Army Knife
This could very well be the world’s first Swiss Army Knife. Bearing a striking resemblance to modern multi-tools, it has at least six distinct functions and originates from the Roman Empire circa 200…
MSI Bundles GPU-accelerated Video Editing Software With All NVIDIA Graphics Cards
MSI has made their graphics cards a little more attractive to graphics professionals. MSI has announced that it will be bundling the Super LoiLoScope GPU-accelerated video editing software with all NVIDIA GeForce series graphics cards (albeit a 30-d…
This week in Crave: The iPad-invasion edition
You may have heard that Apple made a little product announcement this week. But that’s not the only thing that went down in the gadget world.
India gets its first eBook Reader next month
The eBook Reader is a popular device all over the world. Now residents of India can also experience this product as Infibeam.com unleashes the Pi eBook Reader. The unleashing of the offering is…
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Microsoft: Better-Than-Expected Quarterly Profit
With strong sales of Windows 7, Microsoft Corp posted a bigger-than-expected 60 percent jump in quarterly profit and said it expected business technology spending to recover this year, Reuters reported.Net profit came to $6.7 billion, or 74 cents per s…
Supercomputer shares universe simulations
Supercomputing has helped astrophysicists create massive models of the universe, but such simulations remain out of reach for many in the United States and around the world.
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Mind-control mobile-phone games
Lancaster University researchers have created one of the world’s first mobile-phone games to be controlled by the brain.
Giroux Daguerreotype is world’s first mass-produced camera, about to become the most expensive one too
If you thought that shooters like Olympus’ E-P1 or Leica’s M8 had old school aesthetics, think again. The real old school — we’re talking 1839 here — was all about wooden boxes and brass lens protrusions, as you can see above. The double box desig…